Water Supply in Emergency Situations

by Yair Sharan (editor), Abraham Tal (Editor), Harry Coccossis (Editor)

This book reflects the outcome of a three day NATO Advanced Workshop entitled "Supply of Water to Cities in Emergency Situations." Some 35 experts from 14 countries from Europe, the Middle East and Asia assembled in Tel-Aviv for this event. It illuminates a broad spectrum of problems and concerns to the orderly water supply ranging from floods to a surprisingly low concern related to intentional terror-related threats.

194 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Usfromdk · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a very good book, with some quite poor contributions included in the coverage, but a few of the chapters were interesting enough to keep me reading it to the end. There's a huge variation in quality across contributions included in this book, from quite poor chapters, which really have no place in a publication like this one, to really nice chapters with a lot of good content (there are few of the latter, and too many of the former, which is why the book gets 2 stars). In general I think the book would have been better if it had included fewer but longer chapters/contributions; the short chapters make the book easy to read, but also results in a lot of needless repetition. In this context I think the editors did not do a particularly good job; not only are there many contributions where people are saying the same things, but in a couple of chapters you even have sentences which are duplicated in different paragraphs (i.e. the same sentence is included twice in the coverage) - this shouldn't be allowed to happen. In some chapters the language is so poor as to make the meaning of the text difficult to understand.

If you're interested in the topic you'll learn some stuff from reading this text, but it's far from great.